Sentence examples for much perplexed from inspiring English sources

He had been much perplexed whether his book would be in good taste at this time.

The New Yorker, February 21 , 1931 P. 9The directors of Lincoln School are very much perplexed by the revelations of the book but, to the boys and girls of the school, Lincoln has always been a pain in the neck anyway and responsible for the fact that they have always had to attend school on his birthday while other children were out playing.

In a series of unexpectedly beautiful scenes, Death, much perplexed, insinuates herself into the cellist's apartment, and sits quietly watching him while he sleeps; she sees how he gets up in the night to get a glass of water and let the dog out, sees a Bach suite (No. 6) on his chair, and so on.

Upon hearing of this, Magruder was "much perplexed".

Diane, on targeted therapy, confides that she was not hurt so much as perplexed after sex when her partner found her "reconfigured".

The reader comes away not so much relieved as perplexed.

Though theatergoers unfamiliar with Mozart or Casanova may be perplexed by much of this show, the implications of its characters' spending lots of time beneath those oversize skirts should be lost on no one.

But when Egorin, president of the Graduate Student Association at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), learned of a new report that claimed UC graduate students were making too much money, she was perplexed.

But Carnie isn't feeling sorry for herself so much as she's perplexed that the bank is taking measures that she says will make it more difficult for her to pay the bank, which she is absolutely yearning to do.

Even after his astonishing sweep of the primaries, and the widely celebrated selection of John Edwards as his running mate, Kerry perplexes much of the electorate.

The jokes didn't always work — a cameo introducing the "minority outreach" official Stacey Dash, a conservative actress who had criticized Black History Month on Fox News, seemed to perplex much of the audience and perhaps also Ms. Dash.